Re: Some modules from Modula-2

[Mike Griebling <grieblm@trt.allied.com>]

> Hello Mike, on Dec 19 you wrote:
> 
> > > I don't think there's anything wrong with it either. Given an efficient
> > > garbage collector, that is.
> >
> > Would your garbage collector be available for other back-end writers to use?
> > Do you consider it an efficient garbage collector?
> 
> It's already LGPL'd, so anyone is free to use it. It's in 68K assembly, but
> it is a direct implementation of the mark-and-sweep collector described in
> the ETH Technical Notes. I do think its efficient, especially when there
> isn't much garbage to collect. Informal observations show the mark phase is
> very fast, with most of the time being spent in the sweep phase returning
> memory blocks to the system.

I assume the heap management is integrated with the garbage collector?

> Frank

Michael G.